Rigoletto, Royal Opera House, London
Royal Opera House, London: The orgy that launches David McVicar's production of Rigoletto, new in 2001, may have lost some of its hedonistic edge but it at least raises more of an eyebrow than a titter. Michael Vale's enterprising set remains as striking as before - a huge, steeply inclined, corroding iron sheet conjures up a bleak vision of a Mantuan court that's as deviant as its libidinous Duke. The…